Friday Electronic Music Blogging – Daft Punk Live Remixing in Ableton
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View ArticleFriday Electronic Music Blogging – Glitch VST
Check out the versatile effects that can be accomplished in realtime by the Glitch VST. This is probably one of the best free effects VST’s out there. It’s really easy to use and produces some amazing...
View ArticleFriday Electronic Music Blogging – Improvised Synth Solo
Friggin’ awesome. From the Youtube description: MooT BooXLe performing on the Synthesizers.com modular analogue synthesizer. This is not a perfect performance, as it was improvised in one go. Also...
View ArticleFriday Electronic Music Blogging – Jordan Rudess
Watch Jordan Rudess of Dream Theater melt your face with his progressive rock synth skills! I saw Dream Theater in concert a few years ago in San Diego. They were absolutely incredible.
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Bands that go ‘Meh’
I’ve been tossing this list around in my head for a while now: a list of bands that a lot of people like and are perhaps ‘acclaimed’ but do absolutely nothing for me. That is, I don’t like their sound,...
View ArticleFriday Electronic Music Blogging – Lemur Sequencer
Very much like how FL Studio works but with a touch screen. The ability to make the tracks repeat at different lengths in juxtaposition to the others is quite rad.
View ArticleIn Reverent Fear Answers Questions
My friends in In Reverent Fear solicited questions from their fans over on their Myspace page. In the video above, Jarrod and Jeff answered 10 of them, including a couple of mine!
View ArticleFriday Electronic Music Blogging – Herbie Hancock Vintage Edition
In light of Herbie Hancock’s Album of the Year Grammy Award for his album River – The Joni Letters, I give you this appearance of Herbie on Sesamie Street in what seems like a galaxy a long time ago....
View ArticleFriday Electronic Music Blogging – Autechre + Visuals = Awesome
Check out this music video for Autechre’s “Gantz Graf” song. It is a trip. Music visualizers for the future? (Apologies for the mediocre video quality.) Also, for those familiar with Autechre’s style...
View ArticleFriday Electronic Music Blogging – Roland FantomX6 Spanish Guitar
Well, since I don’t really have much time these days to do any kind of interesting posts I might as well not slack on posting some electronic music video! Above is a demonstration of the FantomX...
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Brian Viglione of The Dresden Dolls on new NIN Album
Brian Viglione of The Dresden Dolls has a fun story to tell with pictures of how his contributions to the new NIN album went down. You can read it here on their myspace blog or reprinted here on...
View ArticleFriday Electronic Music Blogging – NIN Electronic Piano Control
Piggy-backing on my NIN (and related) posts from earlier this week, here is a video of one of the members of NIN (I’m not fan enough to know all their names) configuring a monome two fifty six in...
View ArticleFriday Electronic Music Blogging – Theremin Edition
One of the oldest electronic instruments, the theremin in this video was used to do a cover of Gnarles Barkley’s “Crazy.”
View ArticleFriday Electronic Music Blogging – Touchtable DJ technology demo
Final Product // ATTIGO TT from Scott Hobbs on Vimeo. I couldn’t find a description for this video, but it’s pretty cool. More videos documenting the trial and error process before arriving at this...
View ArticleFriday Electronic Music Blogging – Air Midi
There’s also this which is sorta interesting, but I am more impressed for it’s “triggering” application of sounds/loops for live performances like illustrated above. (via Computer Music blog)
View ArticleFriday Electronic Music Blogging – Daedelus & his Monome
Yeah, it’s just a bit into Saturday, but I saw this earlier this week on XLR8R TV and this guy is awesome. That’s all. Alfred Darlington, our favorite Los Angeles-based Victorian gentleman, is best...
View ArticleMr. C.
Here is an article my mom sent me about my highschool band and jazz instructor, Mr. Christensen. We all called him “Mr. C.” though. He was finally given the Merced County Teacher of the Year award...
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Fifteen albums that abide
This is cross-posted from a note I wrote on Facebook. The idea is that one is to choose “15 albums that changed my life,” but that seems like too bold of a claim. The actual description makes more...
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Ribcage Music
Amongst many amazing releases, for my tastes two very important albums to recently come out of Records on Ribs are All the Empires of the World’s Last Rites and—just out today—Les Étoiles’ To Leave a...
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